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In Search of the Lost Orient - An Interview (Hardcover)
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In Search of the Lost Orient - An Interview (Hardcover)
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Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political
Islam. But he is not only a scholar-he is also a traveler. Roy's
keen and iconoclastic insights emerge from a lifetime of study
combined with intrepid exploration through Afghanistan and Central
Asia. In this book-length interview, Roy tells the lively and
colorful story of his many adventures and discoveries in a variety
of social and political settings and how they have come to shape
his understanding of the Islamic world and its complex recent
history. In Search of the Lost Orient is a candid, personal account
of the experiences that led Roy to challenge his youthful ideas of
an untouched, romanticized East and build a new intellectual
framework to better understand and cohabit with the religions,
politics, and cultures of the East, West, North, and South. In
conversation with Jean-Louis Schlegel of the magazine Esprit, Roy
offers insight into the key themes of his career. Roy's immersion
in the complexities of many Central Asian territories started him
on his critique of the idea of an essentialized Islam. Alongside
tales of backpacking from Paris to Kabul, his Afghan decade during
the Soviet invasion, and official travel to post-Soviet Central
Asia in the 1990s, Roy reflects on the nature of political and
humanitarian engagement in this part of the world. He recounts his
formative years, education, and developing political commitments
and speaks to his evolving place within France's shifting
intellectual and religious cultures. This book outlines Roy's
lifelong practice-a combination of deliberate research goals and
chance encounters-that examines Islam, immigration, and, more
broadly, the future of cultures, religions, and secularism in the
face of globalization. Both a significant intellectual
autobiography and a compelling travelogue through some of the
world's pivotal places, In Search of the Lost Orient offers a
striking testimony to the many facets of an exceptional thinker.
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